CYDNEY CHADWICK is the author of eight books and chapbooks of fictions and prose poems, which include a novella, Benched, which was selected as a Critics Choice from The Northern California Bohemian, & Flesh and Bone . In 1997 she received a creative writing fellowship from the California Arts Council. A third generation Californian, she grew up north of the Golden Gate Bridge--in Marin and Sonoma counties. She continues to live in Sonoma county.